ORRERY (ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS).“Orrery (About Relationships)” is a hand-cranked kinetic sculpture made in 2018. Viewers control an advancing or retreating magnet, which causes other magnets to move to the right or left, thus spinning the concrete balls. Like the anti-logic of dream awareness, “Orrery” reacts in unexpected but meaningful ways to manipulation. Viewers will notice that the machinations necessary to make the assembly spin are analogous to emotional maneuverings that anyone who has been in a relationship will recognize.

SONIC WINDMILLI built a windmill at Montalvo Arts Center, during my Lucas Artists Residency Program residency there in 2016. It has a free-spinning bicycle wheel mounted on it, which is urged along, but not connected to, the shaft of the windmill. There are piezo contact microphones mounted under the bicycle wheel, which capture the sounds produced by the wheel. The windmill was later positioned on top of Tall Table, an 8 ft. high bamboo and plywood table to create a 12 ft. high windmill, and was the “Featured Installation” at Thingamjigs’ Aeolian Day.

CRANKSI made these hand-cranked instruments for theThe Garden of Memory, Summer Solstice 2005. The volunteers who helped with the performance became the Crank Ensmble

MONORAILS.There are two of them. They traveled along a string that was suspended over a three-story space and amplified. When they encounter the railing or each other, they reverse direction. I made these for the The Garden of Memory, Summer Solstice 2004

WARTOYSOne person show at the LAB, May 2003. I built a 30 ft. bamboo airplane. It had "engines", which were sound-generating machines controlled by motion sensors and amplified. Appologies to Bella Feldman

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Installation at the San Francisco Art Institute, 2003. It was an ornithopter using a bike wheel that miraculously had a song within it.